Three million refugees became participants of the Federal Resettlement Program, which Washington established at the end of the last century. And although the flow has declined against the background of the tough position of Donald Trump, it has not stopped, and the Ukrainians occupy far from the last place in number, reports Forbes, citing data from the Pew Research Center.
The article reports that the White House policy was most reflected in the granting of refugee status to Muslims. Their number over the past two years has decreased by 90 percent. Although it was immigrants from Syria that have recently become the most frequent applicants, in the USA they are not favored, and the number of approved applications has decreased from 12.5 thousand in 2016 to 62 in 2018.
However, migrants continue to flow into the United States. According to statistics from the Pew Research Center, in 2018, people from the Democratic Republic of the Congo were in the first place. Refugees from the Central African state account for 35% of the total number of migrants or almost 7.9 thousand people. The second place is assigned by experts to Myanmar, from where 3,500 or 16% of refugees arrived in the USA. The third place was taken by Ukrainian migrants, of whom 2.6 thousand people or 12% arrived in America.
The statistics is based on data from the US State Department’s asylum application processing center over the past year. Thus, if we ignore illegal immigrants, Ukrainians were able to outrun even Mexicans and people from Central America in the number of refugees in the United States.